Sometimes Life Throws You Lemons

Yesterday was quite a day.

Our house was packed the day before and was to be loaded in a moving truck. We left before the movers arrived with three vehicles a sick baby, our dog and enough clothes to last us through the weekend to go close on our new house. The movers were supposed to deliver all of our things on Monday.

While we were driving my husband called me and said he got a bunch of phone calls and something went wrong and we can't close. Apparently the owners hadn't paid their mortgage since may... May! Yet nobody knew this... And the house is going into foreclosure.... UNLESS the sellers bring 7,000 dollars to the closing, which then got postponed til Monday. Talk about a lot of info to digest. I cried all the way to our new town!

Back story on this house is... We have had a hell of a time trying to get it. We saw it, loved it and the neighborhood it is in and have been pursuing it ever since.... But nothing about it has been easy. We had 6 counters with the owners and all kinds of minor things happen to give us headaches one after the next. Finally after yesterday I think we both thought maybe it just isn't worth fighting for anymore, we aren't supposed to have this house and all these issues are signs that it isn't meant to be. As much as we loved it.

Today we found out the owners did not have any money to bring to the table for the closing. I am not sure what they were expecting, but I guess that is why we countered so many times with them... They didn't want to go any lower on the house price because they needed to make the money that they owed on the house.

So today we signed a termination form and started our house hunting all over again. Fortunately there were a lot of houses in our price range here so we had a lot of nice options. We ended up falling in love with another house in the very same neighborhood as the other house we were going to buy. We put an offer on that one today... Fingers crossed this process is smoother for us and we get our home soon.

Sometimes when life throws you lemons ... You make lemon aid.. Or like us, have a stiff drink, sleep on it and then move on! Lol